Very Bad Wizards

Episode 117: Extended Minds, Extended Foreskins


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David and Tamler break down a recent classic in the philosophy of mind: "The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark and David Chalmers. What is boundary of your mind? Is it contained with your body, or does it extend to the external environment--to your laptop, notebook, smartphone and more? Is this a purely terminological question, or one with practical and moral significance? And what is the role of intuition in providing an answer? Plus, Dave shares an email alerting him to the psychological trauma of male circumcision along with an exciting all-natural method for restoring the foreskin (that was stolen from us as infants).

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  • Gay man, who suffered from depression over his circumcision, kills himself
  • Circumcision's Psychological Damage | Psychology Today
  • Foreskin restoration for circumcised males — "Non-surgical foreskin restoration was reinvented in the late 1970s by a movement of circumcised men, mostly from the United States, who were upset at having been mutilated against their will."
  • Break Music- In Effect by peez
  • "The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark and David Chalmers
  • Distributed cognition - Wikipedia
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